Concepts of mental life across cultures: Secondary analysis

Exploratory factor analysis using full datasets, tetrachoric correlations, and oblique transformations

In this notebook we conduct exploratory factor analyses (EFAs) on the datasets for our studies of concepts of mental life, in which each participants judged the various mental capacities of a particular target entity. We analyze datasets for adults and children from each of our five field sites: the US, Ghana, Thailand, China, and Vanuatu.

This notebook contains secondary analyses, parallel to the results presented in the main text, in which we dropped participants who gave the same answer on every trial. _

Adults

Samples

  country   n
       US 106
    Ghana  88
 Thailand 144
    China 120
  Vanuatu 120
    Total 578

Scale use

Factor retention: parallel analysis

Exploratory factor analysis

Factor loadings

Congruence

Bootstrapped congruence

Children

Samples

  country   n
       US 115
    Ghana 129
 Thailand 151
    China 120
  Vanuatu 128
    Total 643

Scale use

Factor retention: parallel analysis

Exploratory factor analysis

Factor loadings

Congruence

See All samples, below.

Bootstrapped congruence

All samples

Congruence

Jaccard Similarity

Developmental comparisons

Variance accounted for

Interfactor correlations

US ADULTS
          F1        F2        F3
F1 1.0000000 0.4586853 0.4210809
F2 0.4586853 1.0000000 0.2471846
F3 0.4210809 0.2471846 1.0000000

US CHILDREN
          F1        F2        F3
F1 1.0000000 0.4239758 0.2792066
F2 0.4239758 1.0000000 0.4703725
F3 0.2792066 0.4703725 1.0000000

GHANA ADULTS
            F1          F2
F1  1.00000000 -0.02438406
F2 -0.02438406  1.00000000

GHANA CHILDREN
           F1        F2         F3
F1 1.00000000 0.4827238 0.04664483
F2 0.48272382 1.0000000 0.29324830
F3 0.04664483 0.2932483 1.00000000

THAILAND ADULTS
          F1        F2        F3
F1 1.0000000 0.4088310 0.2799199
F2 0.4088310 1.0000000 0.3841636
F3 0.2799199 0.3841636 1.0000000

THAILAND CHILDREN
            F1         F2        F3          F4
F1  1.00000000 0.53498566 0.1380877 -0.01797417
F2  0.53498566 1.00000000 0.3128176  0.08785768
F3  0.13808772 0.31281764 1.0000000  0.26556955
F4 -0.01797417 0.08785768 0.2655695  1.00000000

CHINA ADULTS
          F1        F2        F3
F1 1.0000000 0.3484258 0.5276473
F2 0.3484258 1.0000000 0.2310061
F3 0.5276473 0.2310061 1.0000000

CHINA CHILDREN
          F1           F2        F3           F4
F1 1.0000000  0.419028684 0.3946064  0.065206898
F2 0.4190287  1.000000000 0.2423535 -0.004321518
F3 0.3946064  0.242353472 1.0000000  0.106091960
F4 0.0652069 -0.004321518 0.1060920  1.000000000

VANUATU ADULTS
          F1        F2
F1 1.0000000 0.5231912
F2 0.5231912 1.0000000

VANUATU CHILDREN
          F1        F2        F3
F1 1.0000000 0.2170508 0.4596587
F2 0.2170508 1.0000000 0.2567643
F3 0.4596587 0.2567643 1.0000000